Good morning. Welcome, Nexios today. It's Friday, August 18th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Today, the physical and mental toll of heat on farm workers. Plus, your stories are parenting

through the ADHD drug shortage. But first, the campaign court collision for Donald Trump.

A weekly politics state of play is today's one big thing.

This week saw Trump's fourth indictment in which the former president's tweets came back to haunt him.

Excuses, Zach Basu is here to explain that as well as why these indictments seem to be happening all at once.

And what to expect from the coming GOP debate next week. Hey, Zach.

Hey there.

So first, you reported this week that 12 of the 161 over acts named in the Rico charges in Georgia were actually tweets

sent from Trump's account. Can you explain how these tweets are part of now a state case of racketeering charges?

Yeah, so there's been a bit of a misconception here with a lot of people thinking that Trump is being charged for his tweets.

And plenty of the tweets in a vacuum seem pretty innocuous, like telling people to tune into an election fraud hearing in Georgia on the TV network, OAN.

But the important thing to understand is that these tweets and these overt acts are not necessarily crimes in and of themselves.

Prosecutors see them as evidence in this sprawling conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election in which dozens of people coordinated using tweets, text messages, emails, meetings, etc.

to carry out the alleged scheme. The analogy that I've been using is it's not illegal to rent a car.

It's not illegal to buy a scheme ask.

But if you're taking those actions as part of a scheme to rob a bank, they might show up as overt acts in a conspiracy indictment.

And that's how prosecutors are reviewing some of these Trump tweets.

So of course, Georgia is one of four indictments in around four months for crimes that happened around two years ago.

Why is all of this happening now and why didn't happen sooner?

Sure. I mean, the first thing to look to understand is that criminal investigations take a long time, especially when you look at something like the federal January 6 case or the racketeering indictment in Georgia.

These investigations are massive in scope with hundreds of witnesses testifying some of them after lengthy legal challenges like Mike Pence or Lindsey Graham.

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